Procreate

Sketch. Paint. Create.

Made For

& iPad

Loved by creative professionals and aspiring artists alike, Procreate is the leading creative application made for iPad. Procreate has everything you need to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations, and beautiful animations. Offering 100s of handmade brushes, a suite of industry-leading artistic tools, an advanced layer system, and the powerful Valkyrie graphics engine. It’s a complete art studio you can take anywhere. Highlights:

High resolution canvases — up to 16k by 8k on compatible iPad Pros
Beautifully intuitive interface made for iPad and Apple Pencil
Revolutionary QuickShape feature for perfect shapes
Smooth and responsive smudge sampling
3D Painting with Lighting Studio, exportable as models, images, or animations
Powered by Valkyrie, the lightning-fast 64-bit painting engine
Speed up your workflow with keyboard shortcuts
Create art in stunning 64-bit color
Continuous auto-save — never lose work again

Breakthrough brushes:

Packed with hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes
Brush sets to organize your painting, sketching, and drawing brushes
Over 100 customizable settings for every brush
Add Metallic and Roughness for painting in 3D
Brush Studio — design custom Procreate brushes
Import and export custom Procreate brushes
Import Adobe® Photoshop® brushes, and run them faster than Photoshop®

Full-featured layering system:

Layer your art for precise control over details and composition
Create Layer Masks and Clipping Masks for non-destructive editing
Stay organized by combining layers into Groups
Select multiple layers to move or Transform objects simultaneously
Access over 25 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing

Color without compromise:

Fill your line work with ColorDrop and SwatchDrop
Disc, Classic, Harmony, Value, and Palette color panels
Import color profiles for color matching
Assign Color Dynamics to any brush

Precision design tools:

Add vector text to your illustrations
Easily import all your favorite fonts
Crop and resize your canvas for perfect composition
Perspective, Isometric, 2D, and Symmetry visual guides
Drawing Assist perfects your strokes in real time
StreamLine and stabilization smooths strokes for beautiful calligraphy and expert inking
Use Scribble to name layers, change settings, and create text

Accessibility features:

Advanced stroke stabilization
Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and Feedback Sounds
Assignable single-touch gestures
Color naming

Animation and Page Assist

Easy frame-by-frame animation with customizable onion skinning
Create storyboards, GIFs, animatics, and simple animations
Sketch page-by-page concepts or begin a comic with Page Assist
Import, edit, and share PDFs

Dramatic finishing effects:

Brush in image adjustments and effects with Apple Pencil
Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Bloom, Noise, and Halftone add new dimensions to your work
Gaussian, Motion, and Perspective Blur filters create depth and movement
Powerful image adjustments including Color Balance, Curves, HSB, and Gradient Map
Bring your art to life with the fun, intuitive, and creative Warp, Symmetry, and Liquify Dynamics

Time-lapse replay

Relive your creative journey with Procreate’s Time-lapse Replay
Export your Time-lapse recording in 4K for high-quality video production
Share a shorter 30-second Time-lapse on your socials

Import assets and share your creations:

Import or export your art as Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files
Import Adobe® ASE and ACO Color Palettes
Import image files such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF
Export your working files in layered .procreate or PSD file formats
Share your art as TIFF, transparent PNG, multi-page PDF, web-ready JPEG, OBJ, USDZ, and animated GIFs, PNGs, and MP4s

Fantastic App, Tricky for certain disabilities I use this app all the time for everything I need to design. I’m especially grateful that Procreate is not based on a subscription model, which is the reason I left Adobe products behind. I also teach an Intro to Digital Illustration class where we solely use Procreate to learn about concepts like layers, masks, selections, and effects. The students overall have responded positively to the ease of use in the app and its capabilities. However, I have had a few students with disabilities, both physical and technological. I teach that there are usually multiple ways to accomplish your goals in illustration and using the app. I have shown them where they can modify settings to smooth their brushstrokes, switch the Size/Opacity panel to their preferred side, etc. In that I am really grateful to Procreate for designing with accessibility. However, the gestures are what these students struggle with the most. Their hand/ eye coordination paired with already shaky hands makes it next to impossible to move a brush into a folder or a layer up or down the list. Even students without these issues struggle to understand the feel of touch and drag controls. As far as I know, these are designed from Apple’s gesture controls but there is no way to bypass them in the app. If the next development comes out with other ways to move these things around I would absolutely give it 5 stars.